SPAEN and UNISONScotland interviewed a small number of people who use direct payments to employ personal assistants and a similar
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Category: Social Work
YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK – a guide for Personal Assistants and their Employers
A guide to your basic employment rights when employed as a Personal Assistant and your responsibilities if employing a Personal
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Charter for care staff employed through ‘direct payments’
UNISON, Scotland’s public service union, announced on 1 May 2007 that it has agreed with a number of key Scottish disabled
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Asylum: Child’s Welfare Paramount?
First published in 2006, this ground-breaking guidance was designed to provide a framework for ethical practice for UNISON and BASW
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Report of the 21st Century Social Work Review Briefing No. 136
March 2006: In the Summer of 2004, the Scottish Parliament commissioned the 21st Century Social Work Review, following a debate
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